happening before your eyes. Whether or not he stumbled a couple times last year is really not a concern for me. If we're being honest, he never really had a chance with the quarterbacks he was left with. The biggest mistake was not going to the portal for a QB last year. Not sure Freeman was able to make the call on that. Half the team and much of the staff was really Tommy's last year. Now the full coaching staff and the program are his. He had them ready for the big games (even though they came out on the losing end of both) which I see as a vital characteristic.
Freeman's recruiting power and his moral substance make him a guy that could legitimately stay at ND for two or three decades, always be good, always be in the playoffs and maybe win a couple of national championships in that time. He would go down in history as one of the greatest coaches of all time and would be immensely respected by everybody. That's the best case scenario for Notre Dame.